Reply of Lieut.-Col. Pilsen to Emil Schalk's Criticisms of the Campaign in the Mountain Department, Under Maj.-Gen. J. C. Fremont (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Reply of Lieut.-Col. Pilsen to Emil Schalk's Criticisms of the Campaign in the Mountain Department, Under Maj.-Gen. J. C. Fremont

Carroll, considering himself too weak, fell back for some dis tance upon the approaching brigade of Gen. Tyler. With the exception of those eight regiments and one battery, all of Jack son's forces were left at Cross Keys, to check there our further progress.

To any man, who understands something of war, the exten sion of the enemy's line of battle, amounting to nearly two miles, the number of his guns and the heavy masses, which we found opposed to us at every point, and principally on his right wing, must have carried the conviction that we had not engaged a rear-guard of men, but an enemy superior to our numbers.

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